From Andrew: I obsess more about endings than Nicki does. So it seems half logical that I go first. That way she can have the last word, too, which she’s better at doing than I am. This will be the last BabySteps entry. Ostensibly the reason is Nicki has accepted a new job. But I’d […]
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When the kid passed out and slept for 14 hours earlier this week — and yes, she did sleep through the night — a few of you speculated that maybe a growth spurt was to blame. Turns out she’s grown a full two inches since school started. At 45-and-a-half inches, she’s in the 14th percentile […]
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The kid was so mouthy and negative in the grocery store tonight that I pulled her from the cart and into the car. She slumped pouting and sniffling into her carseat while we waited for Andrew to check out. She was exhausted, poor thing, following a sleepover and a late-morning movie. That doesn’t excuse her […]
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So recently the kid drew a weird possible self-portrait of herself as a Princess in a Half Shell with crosses in the clouds. And then there’s this new pre-bed phenomenon, which she attributes to being a traditional prayer variation on the Lotus position prayer, though I’m not sure her Lotus prayer was up to code. […]
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The kid came home with this drawing the other day. It’s not atypical, in that it involves a princess of some sort, this one apparently standing on a half shell or a platform of crystals. But I was curious, so I asked the kid what the crosses in the clouds meant. Kid: “For real?!? God […]
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While in Colorado over break, I picked up a copy of the Summit Daily News, a free publication I found in Breckenridge. I love flipping through newspapers in other communities, to see both the content and the ads. I do not believe this ad will be running in the Houston Chronicle any time soon. (No, […]
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